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Republican Rick Perry, the conservative governor of Texas, on Saturday declared himself a candidate for president with a blistering attack on Democratic President Barack Obama.

There is one thing that the doomsayers have gotten wrong: They aren?t nearly worried enough.

Israel's interior minister has given final approval for a plan to build 1,600 settler homes in East Jerusalem, a project whose announcement last year during a visit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden caused a diplomatic rift with Washington.

Texas prison officials on Wednesday executed convicted killer Martin Robles for the shooting deaths of two young men nearly nine years ago who belonged to a rival street gang in Corpus Christi.

Gavin DeGraw who recently was injured in an attack and a hit-and-run in New York City was released from the Beth Israel Hospital on Wednesday.

Jurgen Klinsmann starts his U.S. head coaching career.

The U.S. meets Mexico new head coach Jurgen Klinsmann's debut

The U.S. faces nemesis Mexico in Philadelphia

Such is Chelsea's desire to sign Luka Modric that they're prepared to offer Yossi Benayoun to Tottenham - the only Chelsea player who has shown chemistry with the yet-to-impress striker Fernando Torres.

Artifacts, including a 2,000-year-old Roman sword, were unearthed from a tunnel under Jerusalem, highlighting the history of the doomed Jewish Revolt.

The U.S. faces Mexico in Philadelphia on Wednesday in Jurgen Klinsmann's debut

Archaeologists say artifacts discovered in an ancient drainage tunnel under Jerusalem are left over from war 2,000 years ago.

U.S. markets shed as much as two percent at the open Monday, on news of the S&P's U.S. debt rating downgrade and subsequent plummets in global markets overnight.

Moody's says a future downgrade of the U.S. credit rating from AAA is possible. Also, global markets reacted harshly overnight to S&P's U.S. credit rating downgrade announced late Friday.

Global markets plummeted overnight night as news of the U.S. downgrade. Monday is the first day of trading in the U.S. and futures pointed sharply lower early by 6:30 a.m.

Tel Aviv shares closed nearly 7 percent lower on Sunday in the first response of a developed market to Standard & Poor's downgrade of the United States' credit rating that has sparked fears of another global recession.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on Sunday downplayed the risk of a double-dip recession in the United States, saying its domestic economy was in better shape compared to its European peers.

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis gathered in the streets of Tel Aviv and other major Israeli cities on Saturday night to protest the high cost of living for the middle class, in one of the largest social rallies in Israeli history.

More than 250,000 Israelis have staged protests in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem cities over the rising cost of living, reflecting the middle-class discontent over the country's inability to address the long-pending housing needs.

While S&P?s downgrade of the U.S. Government?s credit rating is controversial, most agree that the U.S. fiscal condition is serious. And while both Democrats and Republicans increased the budget deficit, three major policy errors by President George W. Bush last decade substantially worsened the U.S.?s fiscal condition, and the nation has been trying to recover ever since.

On "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," Roseanne Barr said Thursday she plans to run for president in the 2012 election -- under her own party ticket, of course -- called "America's Green Tea Party."